Leave it to Dick Cheney to come up with one of the most vile, life-blood-sucking, environmentally horrific loopholes to foul up the nation's drinking water. There has to be a special place in hell for Cheney.

A few months ago I watched "Gasland" on HBO, completely stupified as to how this could happen. The documentary was put together by Josh Fox after he found out his property in PA was scheduled to be fracked. Traveling across the country, he witnessed the damage to date (destroyed ecology & homes, polluted water supplies, sick people, sick animals, etc) -- it was a nightmare to watch!

From the HBO site: In 2005 Congress passed the Energy Policy Act championed by Cheney exempting fracking from long-held environmental reg's like the Safe Drinkng Water Act (yeh, who needs safe drinking water?). Hundreds of thousand of rigs in 34 states were then allowed to drill into huge shale fields, right sand or coal bed seams containing gas deposits trapped in rock. Each well requires fracking fluid -- a chemical cocktail of 596 chemicals including carcinogens and neurotoxins, plus 1-7 millions gallons of water (per well). 450K wells in the US so far (thanks, Dick), est 40 trillion gallons of chemically infused water from fracking, much of it left seeping or injected into the ground.

Holy Hell.

I swear, the pollution from this deal alone is enough to ensure only robots will survive longterm.

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